In Part 8 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , Keith Mayer and Yung Chou explore the topic of how to deploy and manage your applications to the Private Cloud. Tune in as they discuss how to setup and create profiles for your virtual machine templates [ 1:10 ] Recap: Building...

We’ve hit Part 10 in our Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou discuss how you can protect your newly created private cloud with Data Protection Manager. Tune in as they discuss disaster recovery solutions and performance enhancements...

Yung Chou and Keith Mayer welcome Server Administrator Brandon Dewar to the show, as he shares with us how his organization has made the decision to move from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 . Tune in as they discuss what made Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 so compelling, what their favorite...

Keith Mayer and Yung Chou are back and in today’s episode they show us how to migrate your virtual machines from VMware to Windows Azure or Hyper-V Server 2012. Tune in as they showcase some of the free tools that are available such as the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter as well as walk us through...

Straight from TechEd 2013 New Orleans, Keith Mayer welcomes Ross Sorensen from HP as they have a quick chat about Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V and how HP customers are utilizing these latest features in their environments. __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with...

Keith Mayer and Matt Hester kick off their new multi-part series today on how you can build your hybrid cloud environment with Windows Server 2012 R2 , System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure by laying down a quick overview of what we can expect for the series as well as diving into the new features...

Keith Mayer and Matt Hester are back for part 2 of their Building a Hybrid Cloud series and in today’s episode they showcase the latest Hyper-V enhancements made in Windows Server 2012 R2 . [ 1:36 ] Series Review and Windows Server 2012 Scalability [ 8:17 ] With all of these scalability features already...

Keith Mayer welcomes Andy Syrewicze , a Virtual Systems Administrator from Trivalent Group to the show as they kick off a multi-part series that examines Microsoft Hyper-V from a VMware Admin’s perspective. In this episode they’ll showcase the differences between managing virtual machine hardware resources...

Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze , are back for part 2 of their "Hyper-V from a VMware admin's perspective" series and in today's episode they look at live VM migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and how this compares to VMware's service offerings. [ 3:08 ] What is Live VM...

In part 3 of their "Hyper-V from a VMware admin's perspective" series Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze , explore the world of storage and its many options for users. [ 2:44 ] What are the storage options found in VMware and how does this compare to Hyper-V? [ 12:54 ] DEMO : How to set-up...

The hybrid cloud planning process is critical, and this module dives into some of the most important questions and considerations every organization needs to examine when planning for a hybrid environment. This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA). The MVA is a free program delivering...

Continuing the "Building a Hybrid Cloud" series, Keith Mayer and Jennelle Crothers walk us through managing cloud foundations with Windows Server 2012 R2 . Tune in as they go in depth into what management tools are available as well as introduce the new features found in PowerShell 4.0. [ 1...

Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze continue their look into Hyper-V from the view of a VMware admin’s perspective and in today’s episode they discuss in detail high availability and how to set up and manage a Hyper-V cluster. [ 3:17 ] What does high availability look like in vSphere and how does it compare...

In today’s continuing series on Hyper-V from a VMware admin’s perspective, Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze take a look at how you can manage your Virtual Machine environments using Hyper-V Manager as well as Virtual Machine and Service Templates found within System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager...